From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932710AbdIRQdN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:33:13 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39586 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932586AbdIRQdM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:33:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:33:22 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Todd Kjos , Arnd Bergmann , Riley Andrews , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , John Stultz , Martijn Coenen Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Message-ID: <20170918163322.GA25464@kroah.com> References: <20170905085640.1566593-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20170918140244.GB21714@kroah.com> <20170918155347.GB19150@kroah.com> <20170918162303.GA27188@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170918162303.GA27188@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.0 (2017-09-02) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:23:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:53:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > It seems like a legitimate use case of the binder modules, but > > > now there is a kernel Kconfig option that has to match a user > > > space binary. > > > > So, should we revert that? > > > > I don't really know what to suggest here, sorry... > > Keep it as is for now, and encourage people to fix it. But we should > reject any new patch that makes this worse or adds additional ioctls > that don't follow our normal model. That sounds reasonable to me, thanks. greg k-h